Re: Why am I getting the error: "Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index"? - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From paul@entropia.co.uk
Subject Re: Why am I getting the error: "Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index"?
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Msg-id 413F225E.17879.5E656F9@localhost
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In response to Why am I getting the error: "Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index"?  ("Daniel Secomb" <dan@ds-d.com>)
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You are trying to insert a value into a column that is declared as unique,
this value must already be in the column so pg rejects it.

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on phpPgAdmin 2.4.2 and I'm getting the following error when
> I try and run a SQL query on a script:
>
> Error - /usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/domains/databases/phpPgAdmin/db_readdump.php --
> Line: 33
> PostgreSQL said: ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index
> inventory_pkey
> Your query:
> INSERT INTO "inventory"
> ("code","quantity","id","description","price","category","image","file","date","uid","sub_t
> ype1","sub_type2","sub_type3","title","gst","gauge") VALUES ('1123',NULL,17,'Not really
> sure what to put in here But I am sure i will told :)','17.30',1,NULL,NULL,'2001-01-
> 17',1,'Beans\015\012Means\015\012Hines','','','African Mist','0.00',7);
> Any idea as to why this is doing this?
> Thank you for your help.
> Dan
>

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